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The MOLLOY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,986 4643 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 1,166 4795 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +5820 +152 +0.001 +3
Other Countries
Australia 2,131 758 0.013 130
United Kingdom 6,762 933 0.015 147
Top States for MOLLOY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,107 1557 0.006 58
Massachusetts 698 1205 0.011 110
California 581 4690 0.002 17
Florida 440 4366 0.003 28
New Jersey 379 2334 0.005 45
Top States for MOLLOY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 698 1205 0.011 110
New Hampshire 107 1749 0.009 87
Connecticut 277 1480 0.008 81
Maine 90 2324 0.007 71
Rhode Island 69 2255 0.007 66

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MOLLOY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MOLLOY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MOLLOY in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MOLLOY by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MOLLOY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOLLOY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MOLLOY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MOLLOY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 128 1.83
Mixed Race 78 1.12
Asian/Pacific 41 0.59
Black/African American 35 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.24
White (Caucasian) 6,687 95.72

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MOLLOY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MOLLOY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MOLLOY.

Similar names to MOLLOY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOLLOY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MOLLOY

The following words are slight variants of MOLLOY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.